Beer-Can Chicken: And 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill

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Chicken on a beer can? You bet! When Steven Raichlen, America's barbecue guru, says it's the best grilled chicken he's ever tasted, cooks stop and listen. An essential addition to every grill jockey's library, Beer-Can Chicken presents 75 must-try beer-can variations and other offbeat recipes for the grill. Recipes such as Saigon Chicken with Lacquered Skin and Spicy Peanut Sauce, Root Beer Game Hens, Beer-Can Turkey (uses the 32-ounce Foster's), Stoned Chicken (it's grilled under a brick), Dirty Steak, Fish on a Board (Salmon with Brown Sugar Glaze), Mussels Eclade-grilled under pine needles, Grilled Eggs, Wacky Rumaki, Rotisseried Garlic Rolls-even Grilled Yellow Pepper Soup will have your mouth-watering. Whether on a can, on a stick, under a brick, in a leaf, on a plank, or in the embers, each grilling technique is explained in easy-to-follow steps, with recipes that guarantee no matter how crazy the technique, the results are always outstanding. So pop a cold one and have fun. Cover Contents Preface: Can-Do Grilling Introduction: The Offbeat Grill Getting Started Equipment Putting It All Together: Frequently Asked Questions About Beer-Can Chicken A Note About Basic Ingredients Beer-Can Chicken Basic Beer-Can Chicken Brewmeister’s Chicken Chicken Carbonnade Brined Big Boy Cousin Rob’s Cajun Chicken Beer-Can Tandoori Beijing Chicken Chicken Aquavit Lacquered Saigon Chicken Truffled Chicken Chicken Retsina Sake Chicken Beerless Birds Cola-Can Chicken Ginger Ale Chicken Cel-Ray Chicken Black Cherry Soda Chicken Peach Nectar Chicken Pilgrim Chicken Lemonade Chicken Thai Coconut Chicken Iced Tea Chicken Other Birds Meet the Can Pineapple Juice Quail Quail on a Throne Partridge on a Pear Can Beer-Can Game Hens Root Beer Game Hens Duckling “à l’Orange” Peking Duck Beer-Can Turkey Birds off the Can Welder’s Chicken “Stoned” Chicken Game Hens Under Bricks Toad-Style Chicken Diabolical Chicken Offbeat Meat Dirty Steaks Hay-Smoked Steaks Sugar-Grilled Steaks Ruby’s Brisket “Doughnut” Burgers Cardiologist’s Nightmare Fish out of Water Rosemary-Tuna Fish Sticks Mahimahi on Sugarcane Spicy Thai Swordfish Sticks Running Amok Fish Grilled on a Board Whole Fish in a Salt Crust Mussels Grilled with Pine Needles Barbecued Clams On the Side Grilled Artichokes Kielbasa-Barbecued Cabbage Corn Roasted in the Husk “Caviar” on the Coals Grilled Horn Peppers Pepper Soup on the Grill Potatoes in the Embers Hash on the Half Shell Red, White, and Blue Potato Salad You Can Grill What? Sesame-Grilled Nori Wacky Rumaki Prosciutto-Grilled Prunes Salsa on the Coals Grilled Provolone Saganaki Camembert on a Plank Mozzarella “S’mores” Grilled Eggs Grill Master’s Breakfast Rotisserie-Grilled Garlic Rolls Barbecued Tofu Just Desserts Grilled Pound Cake “Glazed Doughnuts” Peaches ’n’ Cream Coconut Custard in Coconut Shells Baked Hawaii Grilled Fruit Smoothie Mail-Order Sources Conversion Tables Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y